Fifteen years ago means the patent will expire soon, so the idea will be public domain for others to implement.
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Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 months agoThey patented that like 15 years ago. If they were going to do it they would do it.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The microtransaction concept was made decades before Bethesda’s horse armor which had gamers everywhere in a rage. Now look at us, I’m on Lemmy because reddit has Microtransactions.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Microtransactions on reddit predate lemmy by like…6 years?
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It took 6 years to get fed up enough to make something better happen. That’s how tolerant we are. Right now we’re not going to tolerate this, but a thousand cuts from now, we might and Sony is already prepared.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re the first person I’ve heard claim this website is based on microtransactions on Reddit.